Damien Chazelle Sets Next Film at Paramount

Oscar winner Damien Chazelle has set his next feature with Paramount.

The La La Land filmmaker wrote and will direct the feature, with plot details being kept under wraps. The movie is being produced under Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton’s Wild Chickens Productions banner, as part of their first look deal with the studio that was signed in 2022. Plot details are not yet known and talent has yet to be attached but the project is a priority for the studio.

Chazelle is acting as a producer on another Paramount feature: the David Ayer directed Heart of the Beast. Heart of the Beast also falls under his first-look pact with Paramount.

The director and the studio last worked together on Babylon, the Hollywood epic that starred Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. That film, which was released as theaters were recovering from the pandemic, grossed $63 million at the global box office with a disappointing $15.3 million coming from domestic returns. The reported budget was $80 million.

The project was announced during Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, where the studio also announced a slate’s worth of new projects, including a Scary Movie installment and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature that will be live-action and R-rated. The new Chazelle movie was noted as being a part of the studio’s 2025/26 release calendar.

Chazelle, who broke out with his first feature Whiplash and whose other credits include Ryan Gosling starrer First Man and the Netflix series The Eddy, is repped by WME.